We're going to launch one of these threads a month. And down the months and years, we'll build up not only a mugshot parade of the Whitechapel crew -- but also, for those who choose to participate monthly, there'll be a record of how we all change and grow (and in my case age horribly).

So. Take a photo of yourself and post it (if you're not sure how -- you put a photo on the web somewhere, a free hosting site like Flickr or Photobucket or your LJ gallery if you use LJ -- Blogger image hosting won't work -- and click the "img" button above to put the address of the image in, the http://) here.

That's mine done... These crap pictures taken in PhotoBooth have so far proved to me what happens when I can't be bothered to get a haircut. ]]>
The Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=26636#Comment_26636
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=26636#Comment_26636Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:44:46 -0600zarhooieI rolled out of bed and took this picture. There are some other ones on my Flickr. Makeup and hair are courtesy of the party last night. Clothes are only here because I had the presence of mind to put on my PJs before I stumbled into bed.

Me in my brother's (horrible) Datsun Z. He just bought it on Friday, and the first modification waaaaas: putting in a dipstick. Now, that tells me two things--1, my brother is an idiot for buying a car without checking the oil; and 2, my brother is an idiot for buying a car that didn't have a fucking dipstick. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=26997#Comment_26997Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:58:14 -0600Aberrant_Press

This is actually from a couple days ago, but I don't feel like dragging my camera out, and it's a good one. So let's pretend I took it in March, not the very end of Feb. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=27034#Comment_27034Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:56:53 -0600Ben

Me tasting my brother's homemade olives minutes after the halophilic mouldies had been removed. If I spend the night on the toilet, it's my own damned fault.

Playing with new phone. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=27318#Comment_27318Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:46:04 -0600VI used my phonecam to photograph live webcam feed of myself.First on my secondary monitor which is small old crappy cracked and dirty (I just use that bit of desktop real estate for storing things like colour adjusting popup windows when photo editing and such. Handy, really, but I wouldn't want to read things or view photos on it.)

And then on my main screen with lots of white backgrounded things open behind it.

i went to work and told my coworker that i fell in love with a storm trooper, and he said "what's a storm trooper?"

just to geek-gush for a moment- i found a spider jerusalem doll for four bucks! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=27783#Comment_27783Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:37:12 -0600lanewilliams

This is me, badly in need of a haircut, and maybe a shave. Right before I took this I had been in the bath with my 2 year old, so my hair had dried funny and left looking extra askew. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=28414#Comment_28414Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:39:54 -0600Jennifer Rodgers

Today. And I did nothing to the photo, or the camera. I have no idea where the halo came from...not from me anyway... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=28461#Comment_28461Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:02:33 -0600trini_naenaePhotoshopped looking into the camera stuff. After taking a bunch of other self portraits. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=28473#Comment_28473Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:01:50 -0600Rudi

this is the first pic I've taken from my new phone, an SE 580i..not too shabby, not top of the line, oh well.

Taking pictures of oneself with an slr is more difficult than it has any right to be (especially when using a polished metal fitting 5 inches wide to catch your reflection, hah). This'll do though, I look like shit usually these days anyway so having more descriptive pictures is probably no good anyway. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29106#Comment_29106Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:55:21 -0500soup ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29163#Comment_29163Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:06:29 -0500WaxPoetic

saturday night during RED QUEEN's set- im the blur in the middle with the green smear on my black shirt pulling the singer off the stage. so much fun. ]]>
The Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29517#Comment_29517
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29517#Comment_29517Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:19:10 -0500howyadoin
saturday night during RED QUEEN's set- im the blur in the middle with the green smear on my black shirt pulling the singer off the stage. so much fun.Is it just me, or do you have arms the size of the Hulk's? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29527#Comment_29527Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:47:07 -0500joe.distortThe Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29545#Comment_29545
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29545#Comment_29545Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:25:38 -0500Brendan McGinley ]]>
The Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29774#Comment_29774
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29774#Comment_29774Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:05:53 -0500VespersYou are the most mad-sciency mad scientist I have seen in quite some time. Fucking ROCK. ]]>
The Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29793#Comment_29793
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=29793#Comment_29793Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:17:57 -0500Jon WakeThe day after I took those (you have to put off writing somehow) I got a new job working with horrible deadly chemicals where I get to dress like this all the time, but with more gas masks.

And that's exactly what I was saying. That and "suck in the gut, suck in the gut suck in the gut." The latter was more a silent scream than anything. ]]>
The Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=32168#Comment_32168
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=32168#Comment_32168Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:31:29 -0500Eli Green

also, i have a new bike, so next month's will have to planned to showcase the bike and the new galoshes. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=32857#Comment_32857Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:03:18 -0500Zoetica
Click it.

Still playing with the film I found in a dusty old bulk loader. ]]>
The Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=33672#Comment_33672
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=33672#Comment_33672Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:46:43 -0500sarianlives
never did hear about that job... i think the chin and ears scared them away...

Two weeks ago. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34105#Comment_34105Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:47:41 -0500Vicarious
Well as for the photo... I went to New York and attended a workshop @ his studio, he sat down 1 chair away from me and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to meet him & snag a picture. You didn't see the picture I posted before that did you?? I got a good laugh for about 20 minutes and then changed it.

Sorry couldnt help it, i just find my brain sexy.(two aneurysms decided to have a little rave in my skull this summer, one broke while the other one was about to, everything's okay now tho. Oh and the little white dot in the middle is my neural chip. Was about to call it Harvey, what do you think of it ?) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34323#Comment_34323Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:54:14 -0500BZedanThe Self Portrait Imagethread (Mar 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34327#Comment_34327
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34327#Comment_34327Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:06:30 -0500GreggN

They said it would be good to lose an hour of work time because of daylight saving time, but not if you still have the same amount of work to do as you always do. Fuck you, Time. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34354#Comment_34354Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:26:08 -0500glukkakeI missed February due to being in a time warp. Honest.

That green canvas in the background will be a glorious painting that rivals the masters of the Renaissance in under 40 days. Somehow... It's a 36x48 inch canvas that I lovingly spent a week stretching and preparing because I'm obsessive about smooth surfaces like that.

I had forgotten what my hair was like when it grew past my chin and out of its Aeon Flux-like curls. The back, however, is still a mohawk that I never get to put up due to the cold weather and my boss's relative conservatism. I eagerly await August and its warm weather. And when I plan to leave my current job for self-employment. There will be a party and I shall carve mohawks onto everyones' head. It will be glorious.

Also: shirts made from bamboo are awesome. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34379#Comment_34379Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:15:23 -0500V
Please do come check it out if you are at all inclined:

After work yesterday, I took this while going to meet my girlfriend at the parking lot behind SF MOMA. It was windy. It's a little blurry, but other than that it's okay. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1221&Focus=34737#Comment_34737Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:20:20 -0500Dasai